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Jul 05, 2021 | Philippines Updates the Inventory Of Chemicals and Chemical Substances With 52 New Substances
In EMB Memorandum Circular No. 2021-08, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) – Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) issued the 2021 updated Philippine Inventory of Chemicals...
Jul 05, 2021 | US EPA Revokes Snur Guidance, Issued In January 2021
Significant New Use Rules (Snur) draft guidance was released on 10 December 2020 to help businesses understand and comply with a TSCA Snur. This is the guidance that defines what qualifies as ‘sur...
New Reporting Rule For 1,300-Plus PFAS Compounds, Proposed By US EPA
Jul 05, 2021
On the 10th of June, EPA proposed a new Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) reporting rule after the White House Office of Management and Budget cleared it. For producers and importers, thi...
Are you aware of the new EU Single-use plastic directive?
Jun 30, 2021
As convenient as single-use plastic seems to be, the challenges and adverse effects far outweigh its benefits. One of such is that 80 to 85% of marine litter in the EU is plastic material. O...
Performance Measurement Evaluation for Bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP)
Jun 30, 2021
Performance measurement evaluations provide Canadians with information on the effectiveness of the risk management actions in place for the substances that are found to be toxic under the Canadian...
AICIS - Registration and Application Fees from 1 July 2021
Jun 30, 2021
The Government has appointed Graeme Barden as the new Executive Director of the nation’s industrial chemicals assessment and regulatory body, the Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction...
South Korea consulting on a draft amendment of the K-REACH enforcement decree & rule
Jun 28, 2021
The Ministry of Environment (MoE) in South Korea is consulting on a draft amendment of the K-REACH enforcement decree and rule, which was published on June 3rd. The draft of decree amendment ma...
Australia Calls for Information On 188 Chemicals With No Known Commercial Use
Jun 22, 2021
Australian authority has identified 188 chemicals that are on the Australian Inventory of Industrial Chemicals and according to the authority, these chemicals are not manufactured, imported, or us...
Quality Guidelines for Aluminium, Selenium, and D4’; Canadian Government Proposes
Jun 15, 2021
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has suggested federal environmental quality guidelines (FEQGs) for aluminum, selenium, and octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4). For this, a draft has bee...
India enacts three new Quality Control Orders and amends an existing one
May 31, 2021
On 27th May 2021, three new Quality Control Orders (QCOs) were published in the Gazette of India, namely: The 3 (N, N Di-Ethyl) Aminophenol (Quality Control) Order, 2021 The Me...
Clarification on UK REACH compliance processes
May 31, 2021
In a private communication with GPC, UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) provided some clarification on the UK REACH compliance procedures currently available for importers and manufacturers. A...
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